the sky. pretty thing for me kevin i mean here in moscow tonight it r t h q these are all top stories for you another planned result the u.s. debt crisis is falling apart in the senate choose days deadline closing the legislators left to avoid default. also had loving from us and better in some gathered for the annual march of the stone just once again causing outrage among activists who say turning a blind eye to such meetings can lead to more tragedies similar to what happened in

norway. and israel is bracing itself for the biggest protest rallies seen there in the government demonstrations in the country are drawing comparisons with the arab spring uprisings. all of that the news in full enough for now and next though is technology update time exploring the scientific breakthroughs that bring the future . hello and welcome to technology update are you tired of paying those overblown electric bills at the end of each month this could be the answer you've been waiting for a lot of the energy and with it a lot of the harder in cash gets burned by crummy old incandescent light bulbs but what if i could get you a lot more light and waste way less water in the process and up and coming russian

company is just open a huge new production facility to help make that energy efficient dream a reality. doesn't need my sleazy sales pitch brainchild of a trio of russian scientists was born abroad and is now returned to russia to have been on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming assembly line launches a big step in russia's attempts to modernize its economy and go green at the same time. the capacity. is the highest. in russia. and in eastern europe we can produce. we'll cover. the latest in

a long line russian. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the seventy's using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments that extended to the relatively short life of electric bulbs. then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulbs still in use today were already emerging lamps appeared in the. at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact florescent stores. were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency. diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making. the future. future that brought out the big shots the octagon factory opening. clearly understood the

positive impact of having the company on and she was joined by top level dignitaries and investors from moscow and beyond it's a project that state high tech corporation is happy to throw its weight behind. in the field. in fact. all of this physical technical institute it's been a world class center for fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. would soon name train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. is one of

the institutes in the field of semiconductor physics and of today's. meeting. of. the nine hundred sixty is. based on a three. yeah that was in the late one nine hundred sixty. is is the next generation know how to develop students and what we see here demonstrates how fast this area is changing both in scientific and technological terms and also in terms of the top rate equipment racing here. top managers. of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the optoelectronics department gave them the foundations

they were completing their studies at a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. at the beginning of the ninety nine to our economy facing a dramatic evil due to disastrous reforms by the government i mean there were carried out in a callous way and as a result russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained scientific potential international collaboration. founders were part of a ration of innovative entrepreneurs seeking the elusive startup conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering an economic identity crisis in the late twentieth century not just in the collapsing socialist bloc the west german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually founder incubate was no exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial

space by the wayside and the constant shifts of the global economy the challenge on everyone's minds is to rethink and rebuild these spaces to compete in the high tech twenty first century. these challenges were particularly acute endured more of a city at the heart of the once mighty complex in europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operator. along with other heavy industry installations. long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic. crisis. they had to take a decision to do for the future. there

is. so. by the way a. new facility. passed. in april two thousand and five. for micro. clean room infrastructure companies trying to take technology ideas. from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees including many.

technology. obviously. this is. the perfect infrastructure in order to do the technology. come from basically. you know to get this infrastructure in a. to make a predictable conversion you have a timeframe of two the few years in order to convert technology to products and prepare the company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind of preparation. and his classmates turned business partners and up to gone were looking for when they came to dortmund and into baiter to help them take top quality off the electronic technology into the market. originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and. meyer who

joined us and he helped to move here to. this. company made a creation. and through this time to develop the main principles and basic routine . creatives that elegant today we have between ten companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera gun needed to get their business off the ground insured equipment light emitting diodes don't grow on trees to grow in every taxi all reactors able to rent top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in the octagon team could set about generating the top quality samples that made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done production starts with a thin model crystal lean sapphire wafer and a process known as epitaph. placed inside a special chamber the wafer is bombarded with various gases to form

a multi-layered structure under specific pressure and temperature conditions the gases cause chemical reactions leaving layers of gallium nitride indium nitride and aluminum nitride on the way for surface each wafer will produce up to thousands of elite d.s. so a laser edging process cards out the individual chips contacts are then affixed to each one of the tiny l.e.d. chips are now ready to be placed in. casement there connected with the contacts and covered with the foster layer to convert blue to white light negative than positive charge currents meet in the active layer of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light. technology. recovering the innovation technologies. and we've talked to several groups several financial groups and.

they. bought it. and inside. we found a way that we can grow material with least disliked defects to even. mean that we can build chips with a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase for pilots. who have been in. production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day nailed down and it's a tedious process. and now the expectations are higher comes out of these machines is going not to showcase for potential investors but to meet the lighting needs of clients. to plan what advantages. for an equivalent amount of light up to

go on projects it's. nearly ten fold and incandescents by fifty times meanwhile they will cut in half the energy usage of most and usefully ten times less electricity than an old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. . toxic threat. completely. environmentally safe in russia from let's hear from. other people. but in russia there is no such. so we see that in terms of the market size. it's bigger to europe to. expect russian market to grow. we see the growth of the market for russia from seventy to one hundred percent

a year and we expect this to continue. doesn't have to look. as the city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. companies in charge of maintaining some one hundred eighty thousand lighting elements around the city that's a huge market for the new. currently power consumption total several megawatts. of the major production plant that will produce and hopefully lights to. initially we intend to use to eliminate the city's gardens and. vicious municipal construction plan in the pipeline with new streets to be designed and built in two thousand and twelve twenty thirteen so after we've done the pox we'll extend the replacement program to residential districts and then move on to revamp the lighting for major transport to raise in the city as well as the embankments

and. beyond their hometown op to go on is branching out to the far away russian republic of straddling the arctic circle in icy northern siberia energy efficiency is more than a slogan they're producing electricity and much of the region is expensive and heavily subsidized they also need new technology built to withstand their long brutal winter. what if you. work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia. cold country. sixty degree. this is a prototype here what's different about it i can't tell with the naked eye but tell me a little bit about the technology i would say that right now you can buy my. degree

. quite. definitely a big competitive game since other companies. already been on the market for years to show the ability to meet customer specific demands. ever lower costs. more. like.

kind of mass consumer base. even if you think. you might. three hundred dollars. driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of design. creative minds that studios are already on the case. is constantly coming up with new ways to merge. with the fashion. behind the futuristic prototype. screw in a. while. was the main challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these plans obviously digic knowledge is quite advanced now but it still goes some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of couldn't don't because it's produced a lot of heat so we have to design

a very good. read into is that what this thing is right here yeah it's like. the theme we just came out for the market maybe three years ago and it's just a standard solution but we like to change it and make it more effective and we got inspired by nature because if you look at some of the stuff like mushrooms for example that apes there they just like cause a new wave in up and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and help us to extend the capacity and space around and. to make that cooling process more effective from a purely design perspective from an artistic perspective do you like working with bulbs that need a radiator this clunky like when i look at this i see mostly radiator very little ball and you don't get light maybe as much coming down this direction are you looking at ways to completely redo l.e.d.

lighting so that you don't have to have such a bulky radiator industry itself is very rapidly changing day by day i think maybe even up to one year we'll have another design beefed up sort of the different look so what then is the future of this kind of designing a look like as a were you mentioned at a deed silva gets in small and small and for example they can close your which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny and sleek and thin element and they implemented that but not you know the common you could wait any shape whatever you want really looking forward to some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous it first glimpse but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. to traditional shapes in the name of variety. to just about anything and replace. with tiny. multiplying the devices possibilities another.

month is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel. sometime in two thousand and twelve. with all the latest gadgets for the. new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages product from st peter's middle which is when you first of all use of light to me. and secondly no less important. basically. to simplify the. features. as company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light about. recent years as well as the bang for the budgets you can expect to encounter

more l.e.d.s. on the road. as you can see technology is finding applications everywhere these days even. but it's just the tip of the iceberg. there are more innovations on the way from the same. scientists. from. classmates and. industry. physics. international team to become one of the world's leaders in technology. to complete production cycle beginning here with molecular. and. finishing with a range of package products includes laser chips and fiber laser modules for use in industrial medical and communications technology.

research is from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the. go to unique opportunity to set up a private company here in germany we managed to secure significant funds from investors and. company other implications produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique chip to be used in the industry of optical computer into connections. she's a different place now. the. project. was a proposal to set up production facilities. chips using. something unique. to take. into his called quantum dot. where his company is among the global elite quantum

dots or confined semiconductor crystals with unique electronic optical properties discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by physicists. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. for more amplitude and. relative noise. benefits. company's latest invention. make a chip that will transmit many channels through its. you see everywhere today just a few. hundred

. think of the. data coming out of your computer. waiting in traffic. to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different. computer.

technologies to develop. projects. and possibly. successful innovative business. over the. in russia. right now that's. a project an international city of science and technology over the next decade in all

directions from this spot just outside of moscow so the next time technology update brings you a high tech success story. right here. enjoy the ride. that . he's going to cover. to give them kind of. the one with. the to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never. breach between. because. there is a huge gap and there is. very . much.